Strategies, Policies and Plans

Housing Strategies, Policies and Plans

Affordable Housing Viability Study 2010

This study focuses on affordable housing policies in the Core Strategy Preferred Option and tests the viability of achieving the proposed affordable housing requirements, particularly for smaller sites.

Local Connections Housing Study 2010

This study examines the likely effectiveness of the Core Strategy's Preferred Option Policy CP20. It considers how affordable housing sites could be best facilitated in the District's rural areas, particularly mechanisms which could assist rural housing provision.

Affordable Housing SPD - Adopted February 2008

There are major housing affordability problems across the district. The provision of additional affordable housing is a key Council priority and also a major theme in the Community Strategy.

Black and Minority Ethnic Strategy 2005-08

This strategy presents the aims of the housing service in meeting the needs of its culturally diverse community, and sets out our objectives and targets for the next three years to help us deliver to those aims.

Housing Development Viability Study 2008

In 2008 the Council completed a study that examines the impact of affordable housing policies on the viability of housing development.

Housing Market Assessment 2007

The Council's Strategic Housing Market Assessment carried out in 2007 provides an overview of the housing needs and challenges facing the District.

Housing Strategy 2004-07

Winchester's Housing Strategy is an action-oriented plan with a clear vision and commitment to realising people's aspirations to be well housed.

Older Persons Action Plan

This action plan takes forward the themes from the national agenda and places these within the context of the Winchester District.

Private Sector Housing Strategy

The Private Sector Housing Renewal Strategy brings together the Council's key private sector housing policies and forms one of the major contributors to the overarching Housing Strategy.